New York - They're still finding bodies 13 weeks after Hurricane Katrina hit-30
in the past month-raising the death toll to 1,053 in Louisiana, TIME's Cathy
Booth-Thomas reports from New Orleans. The looters are still working too, brazenly
taking their haul in daylight. But at night darkness falls, and it's quiet.
It's spooky out there. There's no life, says cardiologist Pat Breaux, who
lives near Pontchartrain with only a handful of neighbors. The destruction,
says Breaux, head of the Orleans Parish Medical Society, depresses people. Suicides
are up citywide, he say, although no one has a handle on the exact number. Murders,
on the other hand, have dropped to almost none.

Delays and squabbles in the recovery efforts mean that Congress's $62.3 billion
largesse has mostly gone unspent. More than half-$37.5 billion-is sitting in
FEMA's account, waiting for a purpose. Under fire for being slow to respond,
the Bush Administration had rushed two emergency supplemental bills to Congress
with little thought about how the money would be spent and how fast. Now FEMA
is awash in money, says a Democratic appropriations aide. Of the nearly $25
billion assigned to projects, checks totaling only about $6.2 billion have been
cashed. As a result, a third supplemental-funding bill sent to Congress suggests
taking back $2.3 billion in aid. Mayor Ray Nagin attempted to shore up support
for the city's recovery before Congress last week, but he came home with little
new. The comment of a G.O.P. aide was typical: We want to see them helping
themselves before they ask us for help, TIME reports.